PHP Problem in RHL9

viccavazos · 08-19-2003, 12:51 PM

Hello guys, can anybody help me please ?

One month ago I installed RHL 9 in two of my pcs and I'm reading every piece of information I can get.

The fact is: I recently bought a book titled "PHP and MySQL Web Development" to learn to program in PHP (ovbious). The problem is that when I follow the instructions on installation, I get everyting to work except PHP. When i create a test.php file with <?php phpinfo(); ?> function it doesn't give the page with info it should give.
The book guides to install explicit versions of the software, but this versions are not longer available so I replaced them with a sligtly newer ones.

I installed this:
MySQL-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm
MySQL-client-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm
MySQL-devel-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm
MySQL-Max-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm
MySQL-shared-3.23.57-1.i386.rpm

pdflib-4.0.3.tar.gz

curl-7.10.7.tar.gz

apache_1.3.28.tar.gz

php-4.3.2.tar.gz

openssl-0.9.6g

mod_ssl-2.8.15-1.3.28

and followed every instruction on installing, replacing the apropiated name when necessary. Everyting worked (and was tested) as said by the book, except PHP. Even tried the following code as recomended in the php official manual (in a file called test.php in the apropiated directory (htdocs)):

<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php
echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!";
?>

</body>
</html>

I can see the text on top of the browser, i mean, the html tags work, but not the php code. I have stoped the apache work and then restarted it; Have tried reinstalling php, and NO, it doesn't work.
I installed the software on another pc, and no, it doesn't work.

HELP PLEASE !!!

martinman · 08-19-2003, 12:53 PM

make sure you built php IN to apache and that its enabled

viccavazos · 08-19-2003, 01:13 PM

This is what i did when installing...

gunzip -c apache_1.3.28.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd apache_1.3.28
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache

then....

cd /usr/src
gunzip -c php-4.3.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd php-4.3.2
./configure --with-mysql=/usr --with-xml --with-apache=../apache_1.3.28 --with-curl=../curl --enable-shared-pdflib
make
make install
cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/lib/php.ini

(Installed openssl-0.9.6g and mod_ssl-2.8.15-1.3.28)
Then

cd ../apache_1.3.28
SSL_BASE=../openssl-0.9.6g ./configure --enable-module=ssl --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a --enable-module=php4 --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-shared-ssl
make
make certificate TYPE=custom
make install

and then modified httpd.conf adding:
# And for PHP 4.x, use:
#
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-hph-source .phps

viccavazos · 08-19-2003, 03:25 PM

I forgot to tell that both computers I have linux installed in, were installed as desktop, No Server or Workstation.... ¿is it important or not?

Saraev · 08-22-2003, 07:58 PM

I can't seem to find any error with your installation, other than the insignificant (to this issue) typo of having "hph-source" in the conf file.

Normally I would say use source whenever possible, like you have. In this instance however, pop in your RH9 disc 1, open the package manager and install PHP+HTTPD in the "Web Server" section. For the purposes of learning php, it will get you going in the direction you desire.

Kudos on the choice of books. I learned a LOT of stuff from one of the older editions of that book.

viccavazos · 08-25-2003, 12:12 PM

Thank you very much for your time Saraev !!!

I actually could install and get to work all three MySQL, Apache and PHP following the instructions given in www.devside.net, it took me saturday from 8:30 am to 1:40 pm, but thanks to the guys from devside, now I have my linux box working with those packages and I'm willing to learn to program in PHP and develop something in the near future.

Now, if anybody have a question about the instructions given in devside (if you are going to install in RH9) maybe I can help with the experience I get following them, just post here.